Casual Stroll to Mordor

A Developer Diary, written by Joe ‘”jwbarry” Barry, was released today focusing again on the Isengard Cluster that came with Update 5. And although I thought it was strange that we would see another diary focusing on the cluster it appears that while the Roundtable was focused on the process of designing the cluster, today’s focuses on the end result.

Elliot ‘Avon’ Gilman released a Developer Diary covering a subject that was actually brought up in our recent interview with Turbine, which is the change of reputation items into consumable items.

Leo “Ransroth” Zelevinsky wrote a great Developer Diary about the new Instance Finder coming up on Update 5. Actually, it’s not so much a traditional Developer Diary as much as it is a tutorial similar to Goldenstar’s about how to use the Instance finder utilizing a system of questions and answers that he has received from the community.

Released today was a Developer Diary that takes a different perspective and instead of coming from one source it comes from a number of Turbine employees

A Developer Diary was released by Jeff “Made of Lions” Libby who touches on the upcoming Epic Storyline that is coming with Update 5.

It seems that the Fall Festival will be returning this weekend!

The B2 release notes have been published today by Sapience on the official forums. These changes include some new fixes, as well as some changes that will affect things that are currently residing on Bullroarer (such as the Instance Finder).

In continuing coverage on Update 5, Justin “Syp” Olivetti has written an article covering an interview he did with Adam Mersky, Aaron Campbell, Jeff Libby, and Joe Barry. In the article he not only covers the Instance Finder (including a screenshot of the UI!), the upcoming Epic Book, but also the fight with Saruman himself!

Turbine is once again hosting their Pumpkin Carving Contest. This is not a LOTRO specific contest as the pumpkins can be carved for any of their MMO titles.

Turbine has released an update on their forums status stating that they have identified a potential issue in their system.

In a truant, but welcome Developer Diary Jeff “MadeOfLions” Libby discusses the new Epic Storyline released with The Rise of Isengard expansion as well as some of the technology used in creating it.

Did you think that the Developer Diaries were over? Well, frankly so did we. However, proving us wrong yesterday saw the release of a Developer Diary containing information about Dunland itself by Jessie “Vastin” King.

With every major release there are always issues with plugins no matter what game you play. Usually this can be resolved by changing the plugin’s code so that it matches any changes that were made, but in some cases it’s because something went wrong in the way Lua was implemented by the company.

The patch notes as well as a list of Known Issues have been posted for The Rise of Isengard. The patch notes are quite long, so enjoy!

Today, in a short and very cryptic Developer Diary, Fellowship Maneuvers are discussed along with their functionality within raids.

Another Developer Diary has been released; this time focused on Draigoch, the dragon who is the boss of Rise of Isengard’s new 12/24-man raid.

In today’s Dev Diary on crafting in the Rise of Isengard expansion, we get a look at the new tier of crafting called “Westfold”. So what is some of the information that is divulged to us?

In today’s release of the Warden Developer Diary by Allan “Orion” Maki we get a look at the upcoming changes with the Warden class. He states that the assignment came as a bit of surprise to him,

Today’s release of the Rune-keeper Developer Diary by Zombie Columbus covers their upcoming changes in the Rise of Isengard expansion. His goals with the class this time around were: